FILM STARS

A century ago, John Logie Baird demonstrated a working television transmission

So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

It’s now two years since a new initiative burst on to the scene to help preserve thousands of vulnerable film reels which, serendipitously, has become the best hope of finding long-lost British televi

From strange lights in the sky to rocks that spontaneously glide across the ground, the mysteries scientists are trying to finally crack

In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai